Coding4Fun Articles

Coding4Fun articles detail interesting applications we created using a variety of programming languages. Most articles assume a basic understanding of the utilized language, but if you need help, please ask—we’ll do our best to help out.

This April Fools' Day article walks you through how you can programmatically change the Windows system sound events to mess with a co-worker or family member. Like many other pranks, this one requires you to have
physical access to your victim's computer at a time when they're not…

In this article review of Family History Web Service is made. It shows a client application built for collecting data about shared ancestors. Its developed using the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.
Peter Bernhardt
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time Required:
1-3 hours
Cost:…

The demonstrates a .NET Framework-based application using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition that interfaces with a CrystalFontz XE634 4-line by 20-character or XE632 2-line by 16-character display. The application will
determine the song currently playing in either Windows Media Player or iTunes…

This is a tool that searches a variety of search engines with a keystroke.
Sean Campbell
3 Leaf Development
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time Required:
1-3 hours
Cost: Free
Software: Visual Studio Express Editions
Hardware:
Download: Lost!
I like productivity at my fingertips, so for…

This is a simple utility that will look for devices on the network.
Sean Campbell
3 Leaf Development
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required:
1-3 hours
Cost: Free
Software: Visual Studio Express Editions
Hardware:
Source Code: Lost!!! But check out this
article which shows off how to do…

The article explains how to use Visual 2005 Express Edition and the .NET Framework 2.0 to retrieve weather information not only from a Web Service, but also from a local "Phidget" analog thermometer. Discusss interfaces,
dynamic assembly loading, as well as some simple graphing and…

This article is in series of BackPack API. It focuses on some of the underlying architecture of this application.
Michael K. Campbell
AngryPets.com :: Blog
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time Required:
1-3 hours
Cost: Free
Software: Visual Studio Express Editions,BackPack API
Hardware:…

Purpose of this tool is to apply the transformation in XSL on XML file and display the results.This tool is basically a Simple WinForm where the location of an XML file and a corresponding XSL file are specified.
It then displays the results of the transformation in text box for…

This article is in series of BackPack API. The focus of this article is on another key consideration and needed component of the final application: local storage of BackPack data. This facilitates BackPack off-line,(need
to operate against a local copy of a user's BackPack data.) If the…

This article focuses on a common solution for managing shared music files. It is accomplished by keeping shared music files on a single computer and have other computers' media libraries point to, and stay current
with, the files on that computer.
Jeff Key
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time…